Payload Guest

Synopsis

Payload Guest reads payloads from /data/payloads/ (From the PS4's internal hard drive) and/or /mnt/usb*/payloads/ (From a USB devices /payloads/ directory). If you have a meta.json file in one of these directories it will parse that file rather than trying to scan that particular directory's files. If there is no meta.json file the application will scan the folder and add any .bin files found to the menu, it will look for a .png file with the same name to display. Pressing square will refresh the list (For if you inserted/removed a USB device).

Why?

Because the success rate for re-exploiting will be lower than just running the code "natively." This should completely replace exploit hosts for all but one payload, no need for a maze of buttons or questionable "stability tweaks." This also puts you in more control of what you run on your system. You'll still depend on a different solution for HEN/Mira/GoldHEN but... make good choices.

Example meta.json

Please note the open and closing square brackets ([ ]).

[
  {
    "name": "Enable Browser",
    "filename": "enable-browser.bin",
    "icon": "enable-browser.png"
  },
  {
    "name": "Disable ASLR",
    "filename": "different-name.bin",
    "icon": "no-match.png"
  }
]

License

Please take notice of the LICENSE. It's GPL-3, meaning if you modify this you MUST provide your source along with other requirements. You can find more info here.

TODO

This is a to do list of know issues/planned features. If all of these manage to get done it's essentially 100% complete and 100% overengineeered for what it was supposed to be.

• Setup proper logging levels/statements (Everything is currently just LL_Debug)

• Use error_notifi.png for error notifications (?)

• 1.00 Release

• Use Mira Loader to load payloads

• Swap to SDL2 for rendering (May fix issues below)

• Directly use system typefaces, font library, PNG library, etc (May fix issues below)

• Get PNG transparency working correctly

• Arabic is rendered backwards

  • Arabic likely needs to use harfbuzz to properly render ligatures

• Payload title centering is a off when value is used from the fallback typeface (Arabic/Thai)

• Fix newline height is based on font "width" right now, so it can be different than what's expected (Arabic/Thai)

• New options menu (Options button, save to application save file)

  • Set log level to display in logging
  • Set language to something other than the system language
  • Hide payload location on
  • Set "safety delay" timer value. Determines how many seconds must pass before another payload can be loaded after loading another.
  • Enable a payload listener on a custom port
  • Send payload to an IP/port rather than executing directly
  • Sorting order (Default, alphabetical, most used, etc)
  • Move CreditView into options (Include credits for translators)

• Make it look better visually (Should be ongoing process)

  • Stay simple
  • Work towards looking more and more native without adding unnecessary active elements
  • Menu Sounds
  • Add theme support (Distribute as AC PKGs)